Category: Open Letters

Back in October, I was privileged to take my second trip to the Gun Rights Policy Conference, an annual event put on by the Second Amendment Foundation. You might recall that the 2016 Conference is what put me on a…

I posted on Saturday that the NRA Convention was going pretty well at that point. Granted, there wasn’t but a handful of black folks there. I personally encountered about 12 out of 82,000. But, hey, it’s a start. More than…

Going off topic here just a wee tad. I know that there are children out there who might not have had civics class yet and adults who might have forgotten theirs. So I just wanted to clarify something before we…

Much has been made of “The Bubble” lately. Righties say lefties live in a bubble. Flyover country says the coasts are in a bubble. Black people say white people are in a bubble. Poor people say rich people are in…

Are there lots of thoughts fermenting in my head about the week from hell? Yes. Do I have all the facts? No. So I wait. Wait, watch, and listen. I really wish some of the newly-minted cyber-sages and Facebook philosophers would do…

“A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.” Proverbs 15:18. This post has been brewing for a while now. Every time I sat down to write it, I ended up in tears. They…

I still owe you guys a few musings on slavery and murder (I got murdered at Tac Con) and other such shenanigans, but first I figured I might as well let another cat out of the bag. Or at least the cat…

Dear Tamir, Today is my nephew’s birthday. He’s a millennium baby in the truest sense: born 01/01/00. Isn’t that neat? That makes him a tad older than you would have been, but when I see your picture I think of him…

Dear Mr. President: I’m not exactly hip when it comes to home decor. Whatever hangs on my walls most likely came from Target (or “Tarzhay” if you grew up in my neighborhood). But on the wall opposite my front door,…